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Thessalia, of Whitby

About a fortnight later, the same Life- boat was able to effect the rescue of another Shipwrecked crew. A strong gale from the E.N.E. was experienced there on the 10th February, and, about ten o'clock at night, a vessel was observed burning a tar barrel as a signal of dis- tress, she apparently being on the Walpole Rock. The Quiver was at once taken along the shore on her transporting- carriage to the lee-side of the Longnose Kock, and launched through a very heavy surf to "the vessel, over which the sea was then breaking. With some diffi- culty the crew of 9 men were taken off by the Life-boat. The vessel was the brig Thessalia, of Whitby. The horses used to draw the Life-boat on its carriage, although used to the work, could hardly be got to take the boat to the water's edge on account of the strength of the wind and heavy rollers setting in, which at times completely covered them..